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Using engineering design to connect classroom with community....
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12
Books published in 2015 selected by the National Science Teachers Association/Children’s Book Council Review Panel....
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What We Call Misconceptions May Be Necessary Stepping-Stones Toward Making Sense of the World
Have a sense-making conversation with your students to confront and correct their misconceptions....
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Editor's Corner: Write for the Science Teacher (part 2)
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Science 2.0: Mastering Scientific Practices With Technology, Part 2
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue shows how technology can help students engage in three of the scientific practices described in the Next Generation Science Standards....
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The Green Room: The Top Five Environmental Stories of 2015
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses top environmental stories and where students can find sources for environmental news. Students can then be assigned reading from any of these si...
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Health Wise: Emotional Intelligence Is Important, Too
This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses the relationship between emotional intelligence skills and success in school, career...
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Idea Bank: Using Earthquakes as "Teachable Moments"
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank highlights the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Education and Public Outreach program (EPO) and its development ...
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Career of the Month: Systems Engineer
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Anne O'Neil's career path to becoming a systems engineer....
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Safer Science: Safer Use of Toxic Chemicals
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of moderately or highly toxic chemicals....
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A Hands-On Activity to Build Mastery of Intermolecular Forces and Its Impacts on Student Learning
The intermolecular forces activity presented in this article is designed to foster concept-building through students’ use of concrete, manipulative objects, and it was developed to be pedagogically sound. Data analysis via pre- and posttesting and ...
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To Flip or Not to Flip? Analysis of a Flipped Classroom Pedagogy in a General Biology Course
In an attempt to better understand the flipped technique and evaluate its purported superiority in terms of student learning gains, the authors conducted an experiment comparing a flipped classroom to a traditional lecture classroom. Although the ou...
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Deliberative democracy, a consensus model of decision making, has been used in real-life policy making involving controversial, science-related issues to increase citizen participation and engagement. Here, we describe a pedagogical approach based o...
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The objective of this article is to explain and provide rubrics for science and communication faculty as a means to help nonscience students, in basic science classes, understand that proper communication and presentation skills are a necessity in al...
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We developed and implemented a series of workshops and seminars in an undergraduate journal club targeted at improving student development in applying the scientific process. Students were surveyed before and after participating in the club about th...
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM
To recruit underrepresented students with demonstrated financial need into STEM disciplines, Lock Haven University established the interdisciplinary Nano Scholars Program, offering National Science Foundation–funded scholarships, academic support,...
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In this study, a cohort of final-year undergraduate science students were surveyed to examine whether they fully read journal articles, including whether they seek to understand how the results support the conclusions. Their writing was also examined...
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Retention of students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) major has been studied for four cohorts participating in a summer bridge program supported by the National Science Foundation. Students participated in a 6-week program...
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Point of View: How Important Is Achieving Equity in Undergraduate STEM Education to You?
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue the authors make a case for their belief that significant progress toward equity and inclusion will only be achieved when evid...
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The authors discuss an Introduction to Biology course they created. The course was designed by following the recommendations from the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action report, which stresses the need for engaging ...
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Case Study: Feeling Detoxified: Expectations, Effects, and Explanations
The idea for this case study came about after a student described her experience at a spa with an ionic foot bath. The student was skeptical about the explanation provided to her about the underlying mechanism of the foot bath and wished to know mor...